Winners Holland Film Meeting 2016 Awards announced
Winners of the Holland Film Meeting 2016 Project in Development Awards
The Cam-a-lot & Filmmore Cinema Emerging Talent Prize for the Best Project (valued at €10,000 in camera and post-production facilities)
- THE RELIGION OF NIGHT WALKS, written and directed by Nikola Ležaić, produced by Jelena Mitrović (Film House Baš Čelik, Serbia). Selected for the HFM Co-Pro Platform 2016.
Jury citation: “Extremely topical in today’s world of separated families, and a very interesting, original positioning for a film "from the East of the West" that looks at the Middle East (the director is "interested in off-topic stories that don't fit anywhere"...!)”.
The WarnierPosta Prize (valued at €5,000 in audio post-production facilities in one of the WarnierPosta studios)
- TEHRAN, CITY OF LOVE, written and directed by Ali Jaberansari, produced by Babak Jalali (Here & There Productions, UK). Co-producers: Viking Films (Netherlands), Mandra Films (France). Selected for BoostNL. Click here for more information about the new BoostNL programme.
Jury citation: “Sex always continues to sell… Even when it isn’t shown and so does seeking love stories told from authentic perspectives, whether indoors or outside… With a tender, ironic, and generously non-judgemental POV on a complex society.”
Winning projects of the fourth edition of the HFM Work-in-Progress Sessions
The Filmmore HFM Work-in-Progress Prize (valued at €5.000,00 in facility services)
- MORMAÇO, directed by Marina Meliande, written by Felipe Bragança & Marina Meliande and produced by Leonardo Mecchi (Duas Mariola Filmes and Enquadramento Produções, Brazil).
Jury citation: “Though the film is in an early stage of the editing phase, we see that there is a great potential in the material they showed in Utrecht with a strong mix between fiction and documentary styles to address a contemporary subject from an original angle”.
The Haghefilm International Post-Production Prize (valued at €5.000,00 in facility services)
- IN BLUE*, directed by Jaap van Heusden, written by Jaap van Heusden & Jan Willem den Bok and produced by Marc Bary (IJswater Film, The Netherlands). Co-producers: Caviar (Belgium) and NTR (The Netherlands).
Jury citation: “We decided to award the film because of its emotional intensity, strong characters and a promising powerful narrative.”
Juries
HFM Project in Development Awards:
Gabrielle Dumon (Le Bureau, France), Siniša Juricic (Nukleus Film, Croatia) and Esther Bannenberg (Lumière Publishing, the Netherlands).
HFM Works-in-Progress Session Prizes:
Dario Vecchiato (Indie Sales, France), Janja Kralj (KinoElektron, France) and Joram Willink (BIND, the Netherlands).
The Holland Film Meeting is part of the Netherlands Film Festival, taking place from 21 - 30 September 2016 in Utrecht. www.filmfestival.nl